Hard thermal loops and QCD thermodynamics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
These lectures give an introduction to thermal perturbation theory, hard thermal loops, and their use in a nonperturbative, approximately self-consistent resummation of the thermodynamical potentials of quantum chromodynamics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0111341,
title = {Hard thermal loops and QCD thermodynamics},
author = {A. Rebhan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0111341},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
26 pages, 3 figures. Lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute ``QCD perspectives on hot and dense matter'', August 6-18, 2001, in Carg\`ese, Corsica, France